Methodist Chapel And Sunday School

TF 4476-4576 and TF 4475-4575 5/46 and 6/46 14-11-85

ALFORD WEST STREET (north west side) Methodist Chapel and Sunday School

G.V. II

Methodist Chapel and Sunday School. 1864, by W. Botterill of Hull. Yellow Farlesthorpe brick with ashlar dressings, banded blue and green slate roofs. The Sunday School is linked to the Chapel at the rear. The main front has stepped corner buttresses with tall pinnacles, and an elaborate corbelled out octagonal pinnacle to the gable with angle shafts having foliate capitals. There are 3 shouldered doorways set in deeply moulded pointed arches with angle shafts having floriate capitals, over the central door a glazed octofoil and over the flanking doorways are simple blank trefoils, all set under crocketed gablettes. Above is a central 4 light window with geometric tracery, flanked by single similar 2 light windows with hood moulds and floriate label stops. The side fronts have 5 identical bays, subdivided tall stepped buttresses with crockets, consisting of a triangular headed lower 3 light window and a pointed upper 3 light window, both with a geometric form of tracery. At the rear is a lower single bay unit with dentillated frieze and 2 light windows linked to the Sunday School which is a separately gabled building, having a central 2 light window with floriate dividing mullion, flanked by single tall and thin glazing bar sashes, all with flat ashlar heads. Interior. A U shaped gallery is supported on cast iron columns with floriate capitals and decorative spandrel brackets. Across the gallery is a glazed internal roof. Contemporary pews and fittings.

Listing NGR: TF4530575997